Telecom company will craft its future sustainability policies with last week’s political furor in mind.

Telus Corp. will change its sustainability measures in response to the backlash it suffered for publicly supporting carbon pricing last week in mind, the company says.

The telecom company, which brands itself as environmentally-friendly and runs a host of policies to reduce its pollution impacts, is thinking hard about the impact of a tweet in support of Prime Minister Justin Trudeau and Environment Minister Catherine McKenna after the federal government announced plans for a national carbon price on October 3.

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